Thread: Dems positioning to rig November elections?

Dems positioning to rig November elections?

Can falsified registrations become votes? If the feds push universal voter registration by overriding state elections procedures, you bet, says John Fund of the WSJ.

"What does universal voter registration mean? It means all state laws will be overridden by a federal mandate. At that point you will have destroyed the integrity of the registration process. This is their stealth bill . . . it is even more sneaky than the healthcare bill."

John Fund, Wall Street Journal

If you think ACORN voter registration and fraud threaten the integrity of the American electoral process, just wait until Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank get their way. *

For many years, John Fund has been warning about Democrat efforts to redesign the electoral process. These 'reforms' are sold as ways of improving the process. Fund insists they are designed to manage favorable outcomes for Democrats, going so far as to say last November that the Democrats are working to subvert and corrupt the voter registration process.

Here is Fund's word-for-word presentation on this topic last November at the David Horowitz forum:

"Democrats were very rattled by the November 3rd (2009) election results. What do liberals do when they lose elections? They change the rules. In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. What is UVR? It means all of the state laws will be overridden by a federal mandate.

"The feds will tell the states: 'Take everyone on every list of welfare recipients, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, all driver's license holders, and register them to vote, regardless of whether they want to be. Oh, and by the way there will be felon re-enfranchisement too.

"At that point you have destroyed the integrity of the registration process.

"Now, they will sell this very cleverly. They will say, 'Well, OK, ACORN did have some problems with voter registration . . . we should not have these third-party rogue groups out there, so let's put ACORN out of business. Let's register everybody!'

"Now, the problem is of course is there are a lot of duplicates. And there are a lot of people on those rolls who are illegal aliens.

"There are a lot of people on those rolls . . . it's not a clean list.

"They (the Dems) don't care.

"So this is the issue you haven't hear about. There is a reason you haven't heard about it. They don't want you to hear about it.

"The path between the day this bill is introduced and the day it hits the House floor will probably be less than two weeks.

"Get ready for it. You can stop it. Don't get me wrong, but this is their stealth bill that is even more sneaky than the healthcare bill.

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You will soon hear the hard Left wail about how corrupt John Fund is and how conservative nutjobs and rightwing loons are simply pushing another conspiracy theory to advance the 'destroy Obama witch hunt.'

As far as this citizen journalist is concerned, the fact Fund is attacked by Media Matters and Mother Jones and others only serves to increase his credibility.

Back to the central issue however, the question is: can falsified registrations become votes? Read all about it right here.

We have always held to the tradition that individuals register themselves. This is a built-in system to maintain integrity. Allowing the federal government to jam universal voter registration opens the process to corruption, but that is the purpose.

Democrats know full well they'll reap millions of votes in the process, once the process is corrupted in this way.

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* Note that the Obama DOJ has refused to investigate ACORN in the wake of the sex slave scandal coming from student investigative journalism work. Notice that ACORN board members that called for a full audit have been fired. Notice the Senate voting 83-7 in September in favor of a ban on further ACORN funding. Pelosi had prevented many attempts to place the issue on the floor of the House. Evenso, in September the House voted 345-75 to cut ACORN funding via a student aid bill.

And guess what? ACORN is still receiving federal funds. ACORN sued and in the first round, won. The votes to cut funding in Congress were ruled unconstitutional. Any bets on whether or not the Obama DOJ will appeal?

Here Rep. Steve King promises an investigation of ACORN and predicts it will lead to the White House and President Obama who once worked for ACORN.

http://www.examiner.com/x-27672-Portlan ... -elections

http://www.examiner.com/x-25466-DC-Inde ... gistration

I moved this to General Discussions so more people would see it. This is a very serious issue and this needs to be stopped.

This WILL lead to the end of our election process..eventually. Any alteration to our election process will mean the end to democracy as we know it.

This is an outrage I heard it on the news tonight...this would allow all illegals collecting welfare for their anchors to vote and anyone here legally and collecting any benefits , anyone with a drivers license to vote in our election, we all know their are still 4 states giving them to illegal aliens.....this is against the consititution, ONLY U.S. Citizens can vote in our elections....THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED!!!

What the Dems know that we don't: Universal Voter Registration
Written by James Simpson
Monday, 04 January 2010 20:55

DC Independent Examiner

Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats while seemingly unconcerned by their plummeting poll numbers. A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago: "what do they know that we don't?"

We may have found out. It's called universal voter registration. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund described the Democrat plan recently at a David Horowitz Freedom Center forum. Watch the video:

Fund describes the proposal as follows:

In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. What is universal voter registration? It means all of the state laws on elections will be overriden by a federal mandate. The feds will tell the states: 'take everyone on every list of welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, take everyone on every list of driver's license holders and register them to vote regardless of whether they want to be...'

Fund anticipates that Congress will attempt to ram this legislation down our throats like they have been with the "healthcare" bill. What a surprise! Fund covers the vote issue at greater length in his book, How the Obama Administration Threatens to Undermine Our Elections, a very good read.

Leftist groups are already arguing that universal voter registration will solve all the problems with our voting system. But the left created most of these problems. The radical leftist Nation magazine, for example, absolutely loves the idea of universal voter registration. This is the same magazine, however, that advanced Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven's Manufactured Crisis strategy. The Cloward/Piven strategy was designed to undermine government institutions by overwhelming them with impossible demands for services. Cloward and Piven focused on welfare, housing and voting as the main targets of this strategy, and the radical group ACORN was specifically created for the purpose of executing it.

The Nation article enthusiastically lists Cloward/Piven-inspired organizations like Project Vote, the ACORN group where President Obama cut his teeth. It also discusses the left's efforts to push enforcement of the Motor Voter law, and explains how universal voter registration could assist in these efforts. Cloward and Piven were the ones who crafted Motor Voter legislation in the early 1980s and pushed for it's enactment until 1993, when President Clinton signed it into law. Cloward and Piven considered Motor Voter to be their crowning lifetime achievement. The picture below, from White House photo archives, shows Cloward (light grey suit) and Piven (green coat and navy dress) standing directly behind Clinton at the Motor Voter signing ceremony.

The left has predictably launched vicious smear attacks against John Fund for bringing universal voter registration to our attention. A Google search of the issue brings up any number of nasty ad hominem attacks. Most notable is Media Matters, the leftist group whose sole purpose seems to be smearing Republicans and defending the left's indefensible policies. They put up this gem: "Right-Wing Ass Weasel John Fund Doesn't Like Universal Voter Registration because of ACORN." Media Matters, what a class act!

The problems with universal voter registration are numerous and obvious. Many state lists include vast numbers of illegals, including some states which allow illegals to obtain driver's licenses; because many homeowners have more than one home there will be duplicates; because so many people are on so many separate federal and state government agency lists, there will be duplicates, and because so many lists exist with little or no cross-checking capability these duplicates are likely to go uncorrected. Add to this the fact that Dems hope to extend voting rights to felons and the whole thing begins to look like a nationwide Democrat voter registration drive facilitated by taxpayers.

The Motor Voter law was correctly identified as a facilitator of vote fraud. One of the few legal issues Barack Obama actually participated in as a lawyer was a 1995 suit against the State of Illinois, which he brought on behalf of ACORN. Then Republican Governor Jim Edgars saw the newly passed Motor Voter act as creating the potential for massive vote fraud and refused to implement it. With the assistance of the Clinton Justice Department, Obama's legal team won that suit. Obama himself actually participated very little, a strategy that seems to have served him well in life. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, after identifying himself in court proceedings, Obama sat back and let "the heavy-hitters at the Justice Department make the arguments..."

It is not surprising that the Democrats are now choosing to push this new initiative, for universal voter registration will be Motor Voter running on turbochargers. And who better to lead the charge than the President from ACORN.

More on universal voter registration:

Dems positioning to rig November elections?

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010010580 ... ation.html

Watch this video.

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010010580 ... ation.html

Acorn was bad enough when they hassled legal resdients to sign up to vote in front of Target and felons elsewhere. I didn't think it could get worse but man was I wrong.

And the corruption continues.

If the media did their job, like in the old days, this would be huge news. But nowadays, as we know, most of the media is in the tank with this corruption.

Thank goodness people have the internet, at least for now.

Looks like they're already in the process of implementing their strategy. Note the liberal spin......in order to ensure the integrity of the "minority vote".....as the grounds for this lawsuit


Fed judges: Wash. felony inmates should get vote

Posted: Jan 05, 2010 3:55 PM MST
Updated: Jan 05, 2010 10:36 PM MST
By RACHEL LA CORTE
Associated Press Writer

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means the more than 18,000 felons behind bars in the state could get back their right to vote - without having to wait until they are released from prison and are no longer on probation or parole. The ruling also could open the door to similar lawsuits in the 9th Circuit's eight other states and two territories.

The issues it raises about racial bias in the justice system are not unique to Washington, said Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C., group promoting sentencing reform.

"They are issues that permeate the justice system and are relevant in every state," he said, adding that an estimated 5.3 million people nationwide are ineligible to vote because of felony convictions.

The panel's ruling overturned a 2000 decision by a district judge in Spokane. That judge had found that Washington's felon disenfranchisement law didn't violate the Voting Rights Act, and had dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former prison inmate from Bellevue.

The two appellate judges ruled that disparities in the state's justice system "cannot be explained in race-neutral ways."

Of the more than 18,000 felons in state custody in Washington who could get back their right to vote, 37.1 percent are minorities. Of that group, blacks make up the largest percentage, at 19.2 percent.

Tuesday's ruling affects only Washington state but could be the basis for litigation in any area covered by the 9th Circuit - Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Marianas, said Janelle Guthrie, spokeswoman for Attorney General Rob McKenna.

Guthrie said McKenna is weighing the state's next step. It could either ask a larger group of judges from the 9th Circuit to reconsider the ruling or go straight to the U.S. Supreme Court, she said. If it appeals, the state likely would seek a stay on inmates' ability to vote until the case is resolved.

A policy director with a conservative think tank in Washington state called the ruling "an embarrassment."

"It flies in the face of precedent," said Trent England of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. "Not only is felon disenfranchisement constitutional, but it's good policy. People who commit the most heinous crimes should be deprived of their voice in our system of government at least for a time."

The lawsuit was filed in 1996 by Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan, who was serving a three-year sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for a series of felony-theft convictions at the time.

Ultimately, five other inmates, all members of racial minority groups, joined as plaintiffs.

The lawsuit contended that because nonwhites make up a large percentage of the prison population, a state law prohibiting inmates and parolees from voting is illegal because it dilutes the electoral clout of minorities. That violates the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965, the lawsuit said.

Farrakhan's lead attorney, Gonzaga University School of Law professor Larry Weiser, equated some disenfranchisement laws to poll taxes and literacy tests of the past. He said Washington state's criminal justice system "is biased against African-Americans, and the impact has been a violation of their voting rights."

The state argued the lawsuit should be dismissed because the law was not intended to discriminate against minorities.

Washington's head elections official, Secretary of State Sam Reed, supports minority rights but believes it is a "rational and reasonable sanction for society to demand that felons lose their voting rights while in prison or under community supervision," spokesman David Ammons said.

Last year, lawmakers passed a law that allows convicted felons to reregister to vote once they're no longer on parole or probation. Previously, felons who were no longer in Washington state custody but owed court-ordered fines and restitution were barred from voting. The new law that took effect in July removes the requirement that felons must pay off all their debts before their rights are restored. However, felons' voting rights could be revoked if they fail to make regular payments on their legal obligations.

Other states and the District of Columbia have varying restrictions on restoring felons' voting rights. Washington's neighbor, Oregon, automatically returns voting rights to felons once they're released from prison.

Maine and Vermont are the only states that allow those behind bars to cast ballots.

In her dissent, 9th Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown wrote that the majority "has charted territory that none of our sister circuits has dared to explore." She noted that three other appellate courts - the 1st Circuit in a Massachusetts case, the 2nd Circuit in a New York case, and the 11th Circuit in a Florida case - "have all determined that vote denial challenges to felon disenfranchisement laws are not cognizable under the Voting Rights Act."

Felon voters were central to a Republican court challenge to the results of Washington state's 2004 gubernatorial race. The challenge focused heavily on votes cast by felons who hadn't had their rights restored. Gov. Chris Gregoire beat Republican Dino Rossi by 133 votes after two recounts and the unsuccessful court challenge.

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The case is Farrakhan v. Gregoire.

www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=11773818

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